When I read this, there was something I thought of that shows how easy it would be to get around these bills if they become law.  The BBC has an application they call the iplayer.  It lets users catch up on their favorite shows.  Shows the BBC produces are available on the iplayer soon after broadcast.  They also allow users to watch some shows live online.

The problem is for people over here is that it's restricted to UK IP addresses.  You get an error message if you try to watch content if you don't have a UK IP address.  This isn't a problem for me or anyone else who is not in England but wants to watch.  There are numerous vpn services that provide subscribers a UK IP address no matter where on earth they are.  I don't know if it's legal here or not to use one of these services to get around another country's laws so I can't condone doing so.  I will say that research shows these service work as advertized. 

This is just one example of how the proposed legislation can be circumvented.  Also the same vpn service that a user in rural Kentucky uses to watch BBC programs can be used to access sites that would be blocked under the proposed legislation.


On 11/15/2011 20:08, Sam Kreimeyer wrote: 
It's good to see an argument against these laws from a purely
technical perspective beyond reemphasizing how easy these protections
are to circumvent. The implementation of these blacklists could
inadvertently provide a vector to alter DNS behavior, especially if
they are required to obtain and update these blacklists from a trusted
source automatically. Considering the recent embarrassment surrounding
DigiNotar, implicit trust does have disadvantages.

On 11/15/11, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:

http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/1115_cybersecurity_friedman.aspx

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